The newest weekly test release of the FreeBSD 15.0 is now available for evaluation ahead of the planned December official release.
FreeBSD 15 at large has been working on progress around reproducible builds, better hardware support especially among laptops and WiFi devices and more, various desktop experience enhancements, and a ton of other updates both for kernel and user-space. With FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 3 are yet more fixes while also now having working MediaTek MT76 WiFi support.
The highlights for this week’s FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 3 release include:
– The FreeBSD-SA-25:09.netinet security advisory.
– When downloading pkgbase packages, the installer now fetches 15.0-BETA3 packages, not 15.0-STABLE packages.
– Fixes to allow MediaTek mt76 WiFI cards to work and fetch firmware.
– Fixes to panics in the dc(4) driver and the pf(4) firewall.
– Socket and TCP send/receive buffer autoscaling limits are increased to 8 MB.
– Many build and pkgbase-related fixes.
Arguably most interesting is that the MediaTek MT76 WiFi should now be working on FreeBSD 15.
Downloads and more details on the new FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 3 release via the release announcement. Up next is FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 4 and then it’s expected there will be three release candidates over the month of November followed by FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE in early December.
